A Partial Glossary of Spanish Geological Terms ... - Pubs Warehouse

tiega [seis] blind zone | z. comprobada proven
zone | z. contaminada contaminated zone | z.
contigua contiguous zone | z. cortical upper
crust | z. costera coastal zone (to 200 m depth)
| z. de ablation ablation area | z. de acumuladon
accumulation zone | z. de aeration zone of
suspended water | z. de agotamiento zone of
depletion | z. de alteration alteration zone. | z.
de anamorfismo anamorphic zone | z. de
arrancjtte root zone | z. de Benioff Benioff zone
| z. de capos plegadas folded zone | z. de
capilaridad capillary fringe | z. de cementation
zone of cementation | z. de cizalladura shear
zone | z. de cizallamiento shear zone | z. de
contacto contact zone | z. de deposition zone of
deposition | z. de derrumbamiento zone of
caving (in a well) | z. de desarollo development
zone, pay zone | z. de descargo zone of
discharge | z. de dislocation fault zone | z. de
drenaje drainage area | z. de erosion zone of
erosion | z. de explotadon producing zone | z.
defalias fault zone, zone of faulting | z. deflujo
zone of flow or plastic flow | z. de
fracturamiento or fracturation fracture zone | z.
de hundamiento zone of subsidence | z. de
iluviacion zone of illuviation | z. de infiltration
zone of infiltration | z. de inundation flood
area | z. de invasion invasion zone | z. de
inyection injection zone | z. de las coratnas (30-
90 m water depth) | z. de las laminarias (0-30 m
water depth) z. de fos corales (100-500 m water
depth) | z. de meteorization zone of weathering
| z. de mobilidad asthenosphere | z. de perdida
de circulation de lodo lost circulation zone | z.
de saturation saturation zone | z. de saturation
intermitente zone of intermittent saturation | z.
de sedimentation zone of deposition | z. de
transformation metamorfica metamorphic
transformation zone | z. de transition
transition zone | z. de trituracion crush zone |
z. de turbulentia zone of turbulence | z. de
vortices whirl-zone | z. defe»7 weak zones in the
crust that form geosynclines | z. disfotica
dysphotic zone | z. eufotica euphotic zone | z.
explotada stope | z. externida external zone (in
alpine folding) j z. fallada fault zone | z. /irme
terra firma | z./fwida lower crust | z.
fracturada fracture zone | upper crust | z.
glacial glacial zone | z. infiltrada infiltration
zone | z. intermedia intermediate belt | that
part of a geosyncline where mountain-
Z-3
building occures | z. internida internal zone (in
alpine folding) | z. inundada flooded zone | z.
Umite limiting zone | z. litoral coastal zone | z.
medianida zone of folding | z. medida zone of
folding | z. mesida zone of folding | z.
metamorfido zone of maximum metamorphism
| z. miogeosinclinal miogeosyncline | z.
miomagmdtica miogeosyncline | z. muerta dead
zone | z. no comprobada unproven zone,
untested area | z. petrolifera oil zone | z.
plegada folded zone | z. po/or polar zone | z.
por escalones stoping ground | z. por escalones
en escalon stoping level | z. positiva positive
segment [of earth's crust] | z. productora
productive zone, producing zone | z. rigida
stable zone | z. stsmica seismic zone or area |
z. de sombra [gephys] shadow zone | z.
templada temperate zone | z. torrida torrid
zone | en z. [cryst] zoned
zonacion nf zonation. | z. metasomatica
metasomatic zoning
zonado,-da adj zoned
zonal adj zonal
zonalidad nf zonality, zoning
zonamiento nm zoning
zonar adj zoned compositionally (as for a
magma)
zonga nf [Col] rubble stone
zonificacidn nf zoning
zonita nf [Ariz] local term for multicolored
chert and jasper
zonizacidn nf [Arg] zoning
zonoclorita nf zonochlorite (par pumpellyite)
zonulo nm zonule
zoof£smico,-ca adj zoophasmic
zo6geno,-na adj of organic origin
zoolita nf sedimentary rock formed exclusively
or predominantly from animal remains |
biolith | zoolith
zoolito nm fossilized animal
zopetero nm embankment, slope
zorgita nf mixture of claustalite, tiemannite,
and umangite
zorra nm [Bol] flatcar used in a mine to carry
equipment | [Mex] assistant who carried a
light for the chief miner when the latter went
underground
zubia nf channel, pool, swamp
zuloagense nm/adj Zuloagan
zunyita nf zunyite
zurdo nm a shaft sunk opposite the dipping